MEME TIME

[poisonousflame]

This one is TINY but I'm curious, so:



WHAT DOES YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME MEAN?

1. Go to a site like this one (or just google).
2. Post what your character's name means.
3. If your character has an unusual name, tell us why the creators chose it!
4. Comment on other people's name meanings! This can be IC or OOC.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!

Comments

[poisonousflame]

Axel: Germanic (or Hebrew) in origin, it means "Father of peace". It's also known as "Lea + X".
Lea: Hebrew in origin, it means "tired". (Alternately: English in origin, it means "meadow".)

Squall Leonhart: "Squall" refers to a storm, most likely in reference to his emotional state. "Leonhart" is a variation of the surname "Lionheart". It uses the Latin "leo" ("lion") and the Dutch "hart" ("heart"). BIG SURPRISE THERE.

Blitzwing: "Blitz: an overwhelming all-out attack, esp. a swift ground attack using armored units and air support." Fitting, for a guy who turns into a jet and a tank. "Wing" is obviously because he flies, and because most Transformers have two part names.

Pyramid Head: B| Look at his head. (Not even gonna get into all the other names for him, and the speculation re: Xuchilbara, etc.)

BONUS ROUND!

Kasarin is quite simply how my name is pronounced in Japanese. XD;

XION (Massive spoilers in white)

[memorycomplex.livejournal.com]

Xion -

[challengethegods]

/highlights anyway

MONOKO

[freakyfive.livejournal.com]

Monoko - "ko" to create a Japanese girl's name, with mono from "monochromatic." It's a nod to her black-and-white status. :D

[vanished-prince.livejournal.com]

Lelouch should probably be taken to mean "the shady". ("The ladle" would just make no sense whatsoever.)

"Vi Britannia" just ties him to the Britannian royal line. Amusingly, "Lamperouge" (which was the last name he used in canon as a student) means "red lamp", so taken with his first name, he is a shady red lamp.

I think the first name was probably chosen to imply Lelouch's darker/secretive nature. No idea about the red lamp bit, though. XD

[moralperil.livejournal.com]

Well, Lelouch is pretty shady. :|

[challengethegods]

WELL OKAY THEN.

Terra -- lol way obvious. Her civilian/birth name is Tara, which is "a hill where kings meet". Idfk.

Pearl -- Jumi are named for their cores. Pearl's core is...a pearl. Hurrdurr. She's the least creative Jumi; her knight, Elazul, has a lapis lazuli core. Then there are Florina (fluorite), Reubens (ruby), Esmeralda (emerald), Sappho (sapphire) and Alexandra (alexandrite). All more creative than "Pearl".

Tally -- this one's fun. When Scott was deciding on names, he wanted names that sounded futuristic but wouldn't make squiggly red lines in Word. "Tally", of course, is a verb meaning "to count", and sounds like a futuristic enough name that he decided to use it. It seems when it came to support characters, however, he tossed this rule out the window and named some of the other Specials "Fausto", "Tachs", and "Ho".

Auria -- Auria's actually a character of mine from this debunked novel from the sixth grade. She wasn't even the main character in that novel, but I kept using her name as my internet handle. I got it by sticking an extra vowel in the word "aura". Because I could.

Alison -- so I'm pretty sure everyone and their mother knows by now that my real name is Alison. According to Kas's stupid website, it's either a variation of the name "Alice" (nobility) (French), a variation of "Louise" (battle famous) (Scottish), "sweet" (German), or "honest" (Irish and Greek).

lol this was. Kind of long.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Two Allisons?

TWO?!

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Zack Fair: Supposedly to contrast with Cloud Strife. Cloud being dark and gloomy and Fair being clear and light. Cloudy weather? Fair skies?

AHAHA.

AHA.

...it hurt just to type that.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

And since I can't seem to get this website working on a PSP and I absolutely detest my real name, let's go with my online one.

Eco(jak): ...fun fact, I was a huge Jak and Daxter nut at 14 years old. Eco is the magic you use in the game, and my name was originally Ecoblood. ...but stuff happened and had to fix. Everyone just uses Eco anyway.

:B bb

[theatricalflirt.livejournal.com]

Paradox: doesn't have a name. :3

Plastic Man: in main DC canon, he's Patrick, which means Nobleman. In Brave and the Bold, Ramona calls him Edward. While I don't feel like changing his name in game, it means Rich Guard.

GLaDOS: Gladys means Lame. XD

Asrana: Totally made up name. The closest I could find was Asranna, which is a Shivalli Brahmin surname.

Random

[theatricalflirt.livejournal.com]

My username, Senchou, is the Japanese word for the captain of a ship. :3 I tacked on 42 because the regular one was taken and, well, 42 is awesome.

RION STEINER

[doorwasopen]

Do I even need any words for this?



Additionally, Steiner is of German origin, for "stone".

Re: RION STEINER

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

King Germanstone.

JOHN H. WATSON

[loyal-boswell.livejournal.com]

John = Hebrew, meaning "God is gracious"

Watson = Scottish and northern English, meaning "son of Walter"

Walter = German, meaning "ruler (or general) of the army"



And as a bonus, it's been suggested that the "H" stands for Hamish, which is the Scottish equivalent for James, so...

James = Hebrew, meaning "supplanter"

AYA BREA

[chondriosome]

Aya can be both Hebrew and Japanese. The Hebrew meaning is "bird".

Although, because her mother was Japanese, it probably pertains more to "full of color".

Brea is an Irish surname, meaning "hill".

So I guess Aya is a hill full of color or some shit.

[challengethegods]

What is it with Irish names all meaning "hill".

[crooked-timbers.livejournal.com]

Adrian:

Meaning: From the Latin Hadrianus meaning of Adria or of the Adriatic sea region. Pope Adrian IV was a 12 century British Pope who became popular in the 1980s when Sue Townsend published 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole'.

Uh huh. Right. Veidt? I don't know. There was a German actor named Conrad Veidt? he looked like this. (http://redtreetimes.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/conrad-veidt-themanwholaughs2.jpg)

Ginkgo Biloba Ginko: Apparently a Japanese girl's name that doesn't mean anything without kanji. His name is written in katakana. lulz. SPOILERZ in white.

ALEXANDER FUCKING WOLFGANG

[citygrit]

Alexander is derived from Greek, meaning "defender of men". Which is ironic, really. B|

Wolfgang is of German origin, meaning "advancing wolf".

Yeah I never really put much thought into giving my characters' names with some special meaning when I created them, fff.

[rihoooon.livejournal.com]

HEY ALL MY CHARACTERS HAVE REAL NAMES WOAH

Ladd: Apparently means 'attendant,' from English origin. ATTENDANT... OF DEATH

Manuela: Assuming hers is Spanish origin, so I clicked that one - means 'God is with us.' OR THE T-VIRUS DUN DUN DUNNN

Cain: From Hebrew origin - spear or possessed. In the Bible, Cain was the first murderer, having killed his brother Abel in a fit of jealousy. SOUND FAMILIAR HMM?

[rihoooon.livejournal.com]

oh and about my name, Siberia, since I'm sure people have wondered - obviously it's a Russian territory, but that has nothing to do with it. Actually, it was the name of my snow-themed MMORPG character (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/Elanar/horizons_1084394134.png) and it just ended up sticking.

( Fun fact: my original online name was Arthropoxus. Siberia is. easier. )

[killmeloving.livejournal.com]

LUA isn't a real name. \o/ it might be short for something like Luisa? or Luann? which was a fairly popular girls name at the time. i don't know. it was probably chosen just because it sounded nice. half the names in Baccano! sound more like nicknames than anything else

The closest i was able to find is Luan. Gaelic, meaning: warrior

KLEIN is German, meaning: small or little

[rihoooon.livejournal.com]

awww little warrior :>

LUA SHOULD BE A REAL NAME I THINK IT'S PRETTY

[doubtheaven.livejournal.com]

CASTIEL:

Castiel is an Angel Of Thursday in the occult lore. This may be a reference to the fact that Supernatural airs on a Thursday night on The CW.

Also..

There is a municipality in Switzerland called Castiel. Its coat of arms is the archangel Michael killing a dragon. This image has appeared in paintings in 2.13 Houses of the Holy and 4.22 Lucifer Rising.

Castiel's Vessel is JIMMY NOVAK:

Jimmy in the English/Hebrew means supplanter (to take the place of another/replace)
Novak is a surname in a number of Slavic languages, and one of the most popular surnames in many Slavic countries, namely the Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Poland. The name is derived from the Slavic word for "new" (e.g. Czech: nový), meaning something similar to "new man", "newcomer" or "stranger" in English. The name was often given to someone who came to a new city, or a convert to Christianity.

In Supernatural... Jimmy Novak's name is a combination of Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, the two lead actors in Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo.

[hellbornhuntrss.livejournal.com]

Rip van Winkle is, obviously, the name of the American folklore protagonist who goes out hunting and falls asleep and wakes up 20 years later. I'm pretty fucking sure the creator of Hellsing just randomly settled on a German-sounding name without checking if the person was actually male or female, but my theory was that Hellsing!Rip also goes to sleep, but it's more like a number of fifty years; she leaves Germany in 1944, stays in Brazil doing god knows what for fifty years and reemerges in 1999 completely unchanged, in a world that has no idea who she is or why they should care. Also the verb 'rip' is violent, and Rip is violent so...yeah that's all I got. Also 'van Winkle' sounds German.

Sari Sumdac again, isn't listed, but it's sort of stereotypically Indian, and Sari herself is Indian-American, so it may just be racist. Also it's probably the only way for them to get in the joke "I'm Sari"/"You don't have to apologize." in the first episode of TF:A/

Leslie Vernon is finally someone with normal names. Sort of. "The name Leslie is a baby boy name. The name Leslie comes from the Scottish origin. In Scottish The meaning of the name Leslie is: Scottish surname and place name. From Leslie." Yeah. Interesting. As for Vernon..."The name Vernon is a baby boy name. The name Vernon comes from the English origin. In English The meaning of the name Vernon is: Alder tree grove. Aristocratic surname brought to England at the time of the Norman conquest."

So he's a place and a tree. Way to go.

Basil, besides being an actual herb, is "The name Basil is a baby boy name. The name Basil comes from the English origin. In English The meaning of the name Basil is: Royal; kingly."

So Basil is the only one that makes any damned sense. Yeah my names suck.

Also Auria already listed "Allison' so I don't need to go look my own name up.

[rihoooon.livejournal.com]

...fff is there really one called Darklighter

[queenofcharn.livejournal.com]

Jadis was invented by Lewis for the book. It is speculated that he derived the name from a Turkish word for "witch," as he derived the lion Aslan's name from the Turkish for "lion."

[book-of-mirage.livejournal.com]

AW LAWD

OKAY

I love meanings. and there's ~bonus features~ for the NPCs.

Ienzo - is meaningless. It's just a made up sound. If you WANT you can pretend it's a fucked up version of Enzo, which means Conquering.

Mare - means "Sea" in Latin, and refers to how Water was originally her strongest Element, and also how she fell into the sea and became it for a short while, and how she woke up on the seashore. Also, an allusion to how still waters run deep.

Cyrus - to quote Behind the Name (http://www.behindthename.com), "From Κυρος (Kyros), the Greek form of the Persian name Kūrush, which may mean "far sighted" or "young". The name is sometimes associated with Greek κυριος (kyrios) "lord". It was borne by several kings of Persia, including Cyrus the Great, who conquered Babylon. He is famous in the Old Testament for freeing the captive Jews and allowing them to return to Israel."

Solaris - Means "Of the Sun". He's the Deva of Sunlight. His original name is something similar, just. In his own people's language. iIt's probably something like Oazeah. RANDOM TRIVIA: He has a daughter named Ouzaahn, which means something like "Bright wind".

Aaron de Bertilak - Aaron is only his name because I heard it in a dream. Literally. It means something like "Lofty". His last name, de Bertilak, is a direct reference to the poem Sir Gaawain and the Green Knight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight). Sir Bertilak de Hautdesert is the name of the titular knight, who was put under a curse by Morgan le Fey.

His true name, Ameras, is a derivation from the Zororastrian spirit of immortality and the patron saint of plants, Amaretat (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/ameretat.html). Yes, Ameretat is female. Similarly, Jin Sharivar's truename was partially based on another Zororastrian spirit, Khshathra Vairya (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/k/khshathra_vairya.html).

... Aaron is complicated.

Isis - Named for the Egyptian goddess (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/isis.html). Originally, her name was Iris, after the Greek goddess of rainbows (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/iris.html)

Nautilus - Named for the sea creature, based on the shape of the city as a nautilus spiral. Originally I was going to call it Helix after the DNA strand, but changed my mind (and then that name went to Solaris' city). As a spiral of DNA or the spiral of a galaxy, it represents evolution - and, ergo, change. It's a symbol of exponential growth as well, at least as a logarithmic spiral. The Nautilus as a creature is a traveler, a journeyer, and (I think?) a protector of young, as it actually carries its own eggs on a currant.

... teal thinks too hard.

[book-of-mirage.livejournal.com]

Oh. My own names. I have too many.

Teal Deer - I talk too much. Ergo, I am TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read). which is also teal deer. Also, teal is my favourite color, and on those RARE occasions that I make author avatars, they always, for some reason, have mule deer ears. This was LONG before I picked up the screen name.

Ryuu - Means Dragon. I was dragon-obsessed in high school, and also animu obsessed. I've tried to get away with it due to trying to distance myself from my idiot high school years.

[tobeajedi.livejournal.com]

I looked both on that site and 20000 Names and Vima did not come up with any results, ffff. I guess in the early 90's they hadn't decided to just pilfer Indian and South Asian names for all the "outer space" sounding ones, so she gets to be unique. I'm kind of surprised to not find it anywhere, really.

TotJ doesn't have many English names... of course, in Starwars names like Luke and Ben are probably as unusual as Ulic Qel-Droma. Her mom's name is Nomi and her dad's name is Andur, and the only English name I can think of right now is Cay. (Another name in that series is Qrrrl Toq. Although the guy who it's attached to is a lizardman, so obviously different phonetics.)

As for Sunrider, that's pretty standard with the (old) Star Wars pattern of picking last names, not unlike Darklighter and Skywalker. It sounds epic and outer space.

[ruaboggle.livejournal.com]

Anomie:
1. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
2. Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals: "We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage" (Charles Krauthammer).
[French, from Greek anomi , lawlessness, from anomos, lawless : a-, without; see a-1 + nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

A state or condition of individuals or society characterized by an absence or breakdown of social and legal norms and values, as in the case of an uprooted people.

The Professor named her Anomie after her behavior. And because he knew her real name: Annemarie.

I picked it because it sounded pretty and not like something one would expect from Anomie.

[apreacherboy.livejournal.com]

William Jesse Grant is my grandmother's grandfather. (The character is a fictionalized version of the real person).

He was named after his grandfather William Grant and his uncle Jesse Grant, and judging by the family tree, it was very common to name after other family members. Incidently, Ulysses S. Grant is another one of his uncles.

The name William is a baby boy name. The name William comes from the English origin. In English The meaning of the name William is: Resolute protector; will. For a long time after the Norman conquest in A.D. 1066 many English boys were given some form of William the Conquer's name.

The name Jesse is a baby boy name. The name Jesse comes from the Hebrew origin. In Hebrew The meaning of the name Jesse is: Wealthy. Jehovah exists. The father of King David in the Old Testament.

The name Grant is a baby boy name. The name Grant comes from the Scottish origin. In Scottish The meaning of the name Grant is: Originally a Scottish surname derived from the French 'grand', meaning tall or great. Now common both as a surname and given name. Famous bearer: American President Ulysses S. Grant.

[etherfeminist.livejournal.com]

Hazel = the tree
Bently = English surname refering to an area covered in coarse grass.

I wanted her to have a 'normal' kind of name, and I have a bais toward things that sound English sound smarter.

I stole the name from the chorus from a poem I wrote a few months before:

My name is Hazel Bently, m'mother was a spy
M'father was a baker and he never liked to lie
She taught me to make poisen
He taught me to bake rye
She taught me how to kill a man
He taught me how to die.

It just sounded right, I guess.

[cheerfulcrazy.livejournal.com]

So apparently Jonathan is derived from a Hebrew name, meaning 'God has given'.
I don't even know.
Teatime (or teh-ah-tim-eh) is blatantly obvious.
Monday is also blatantly obvious! SERIOUSLY, GUYS.
Skywarp is named after the G1 character, and probably was named because he can teleport. Also he can fly/is a Seeker (hence the 'sky' part).
Klonoa...I don't know, actually;;;

[spongescream.livejournal.com]

Starscream.... He. Is shaped like a star. And he has an annoying screechy voice. Not a difficult one to figure out.

Hatsune Miku OKAY AN INTERESTING ONE The name of the title and the character of the software was chosen by combining Hatsu (初, First), Ne (音, Sound), and Miku (未来, Future)... so her name means. First sound of the future. Or any variation thereof.

[spongescream.livejournal.com]

Annnd Jolta.

OH YOU GUYS GET THE DIRTY BEGINNINGS OF ONE OF YOUR MODS. This one has stuck like glue and it's too late to get rid of it. UHG.

So. My first RP was a Pokemon MU. Not only that. A PokeMORPH MU. Yeah. Furries. I know. I was 12. I didn't know any better. Anyway, my first character there was a horrid mary-sue name Gojolta. Yeah. I watched too much Dragon Ball Z. ANYWAY. Gojolta was this Jolteon chick. She was a pretty cool guy and didn't afraid of anything. People shortened the name and called me "Jolta" because it was. Just. Easier. I signed everything that way online when I applied for anything, so it kind of stuck...

*HANGS HEAD IN SHAAAAAAAME*